The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-23
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Of the hotel Hobbies the other day was group
Of well-known men about town, evidently
much interested In something on the street.
One Of them with n pencil and paper was
keeping a tally, while two others, -one a tall
man with a silk hat aud the other small,
stout, excltabe individual, were calling out
numbers and occasionally asking some ques-
tions about the score.
THAT'S one more" said the little man, de-
cidedly, as an old colored man with heavy
bundle under his arm came shamblIng down
street. sand two more" he added as two
chocolate colored schoolgirls turned the cor
Der.
"And there is two more for me-" said the
tall one, as Congressman Wilson, Of West Viz
gnia and friend came In sight.
1.-TWO more for me,n was the response, drawn
| out evidently by couple of colored newsboys,
and then the whole crowd began to get nearer
the scorer and show some signs OF excite
| mcnt.
'You have only five more to go,n said he to
the tall man, while the other continued to look
anxiously up and down street. Sand guess
you will get there now,n lie added, as crowd
of Virginia politicians came out Of an adjoin-
ing bar-room.
"Seven of them" said the tall man. THAT
settles 1t, and they all went of together to
keep up their spirits at the little mans ex-
pense.
Z The better they had made was one which
seemod IN offer nrettv fair conditions ON either
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sue wheh "ashihetons "ni'o WHICH popu
laton is out oil the city between congressional
sessions. The small man had said that there
were moro colorcd than white people I'm the
s,s.,,,a s,d ,,,o o,ror had aonh,odit Tho can
s"ee's anu INC o'no' n"u uo"D'.'" ~ NV ~
sus tables could not nave settleu the question
satisfactorily, so they agreed to each count
bis color as they passed along the streets, the
49,. ha,,nr, h,ndrod Grs, ~ bo rogarded "a
ono na'i"S no",''' ",'' W 10 s'S'
the winner. Inc hundred white persons pass.
ed the window irsL ana 80 lar as tnat tess
was concerned shoWeu lnn' the Propui,lou VI
the streets were ABOUT oo 10 loV III i"'oi Vi
the whites. u,,...
For the summer months mat proportion
would sometimes seem 100 small though' ac-
cording to the census, the colored popuiatlon
is ABOUT one-third the wnole NUMBER Vi resi-,
dents. Inc one-third, however, can spreau
all over the city when IL makes up its minu 10
DO H. a coiored procession, WIN coiorcu
brass band ana coloreu urun,haJor eau
bring out so many colored people tnat We
lace. Emancipation uay, Wnich Is paItlGuiaI
ly and peculiarly the property OF tne piacks, is
celebrated by an outpourlhg wDlch apsoiutey
makes pennsylvania avenue iInpassip,e Ior
while people. Crowds as uense as any Oh those
that line Chestnut street when olg process
sion passes, are MADE up exclusively Oh olachs'
and with Inc black procession oiack nyinpns,
black goddesses OF liberty, and black queens OF
beauty, IL is Il day certainly on when WASH
tngton Is no place Tor whlte man;
curious tnlng ABOUT the wealthy coioreu
men In the Distr'ct (and there are pienty Oh
them) Is That they all nave maze tneir money
out OF real estate by the simple process OF
holding on, probably the wealthest OF then is
John II. COOK, the COLLECTOR Oh taAes' VINO 10 u
prominent man in their aristocratic churcn.
He bought big lot Mt the corner OF sixteenth
and X streets when II was worth only lew
cents square ioot, ana now NOUS u ata plice
that would be small fortune. On each OF
the other three corners are maghincehtlresl.
dences, and n street centers lts display Just
around him. Nearly every other house IN the
block Is owned or rented 10y some man Oh
national reputation. COOKS own Httie mouse
makes such contrast that the olher rcsiuents
ought to pay MIN Tor Keeping u there. ~ u
clean, conspicuously modest set away BACK
with lis front on line which was evidently
one, ed as short cut across the corner, anu
painted as white as the best mouse III coun-
try village. great many wealthy men nave
iicu W pul ~ i'Oi' ',' ~ ~ 80 - t.i'o
In value every day, ana he mas no disposition
to sell. Nevertheless, his family are not on
visiting terms with their neighbors
Other corners on Massachusetts avenue ana
the vicinity lof Dupont circle are owned ana
occupied by colored men who have become
wealthy In the same way. They make enough
to live on and pay their taxes, and the men
ton OF an ordinary price Tor their property
has no effect on them. They nave stronger
belief In the future OF real estate than tue
whites and as matter OF fact are party re-
sponsible for the high figures that eligible
property here has reached. Ihey rarely sell
to make profit, like the ordinary white spec
ulator, for they know the difficulty OF buying
again, and they have, besides, constant lear
that the whites are too smart Tor them II they
get into the market Their fortune Is staked